Born in Nardò, Italy, 1978. Lives and works in Switzerland.
Johnny Rao is a self-taught visual artist whose work explores human disconnection, inner tension, and emotional states within contemporary society.
His practice moves between abstraction, conceptual research, and intuitive gesture, collecting fragments of everyday life, silence, noise, and emotional residue.
Rao's art is driven by authenticity rather than trends, focusing on the invisible processes that shape human behavior, perception, and presence.
Art, for him, is not representation but experience - a space “here emotion, observation, and environment coexist”.